The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-03-02
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.


/ What the Newspapers are Saying OF Men
| and Women of Note.
| Rossini's nshes have been taken from Paris
to Florence, and monument will be erected
over them
| Dr. Allen McLane Hamilton, the well known
expert in insanity cases, is grandson of AL
exander Hamilton.
| Lord Tennyson's eyesight is failing him to
such an extent as to cause serious alarm
among his numerous circle of friends.
Talking of dressmakcrs, Miss Clara Hunt
ington paid hers ST, 900 last year. How does
that strike you, Civilization is a great thing,
| isn't it7
| Editor Grady, of the Atlanta Constitution,
| is a brilliant writer but an inconsistent
worker. Sometimes he win come to the Office
| and do as much work in a few hours as an
other man will do in week, and then be viii
| lay Off for a month.
| Senator Jones, Of Nevada, has struck no
such rich streazs of luck as lately represent
| ed He has had no great stroke of fortune.
| He has done well in business. but has had
nothing like the success which the numerous
| paragraphs printed have attributed to him.
| The story is started in the newspapers that
( Ben Butler, who hanged Mumford in New
| in 1862, found his widow in straitened circum-
stances after the war and secured her good
clerkship in the interior department at Wash
ington
Mr.. W. H. Beard, the artist. made study
for large picture to he entitled "The Power
of Death" Weirdlv depicted is a half clothed
| figure with a deaths head, one hand grasping
| a tiger in the throes of dissolution, the other
| a withered tree, while one foot rests on the
PROSTATE form of dead elephant. In the
background, which is desolate and gloomy, is
| dead lion.
Emperor William, Count Won Moltke, Gen.
| W. 5. Harvey, U. S. A, and Col E. G. w.
| Butler, of St Louis, are believed to be the
| oldest four military officers in the world
| Between the last two there is a good deal of
| rivalry as to precedence. Butler went into
| the army before Harney-that is, at West
| Point. But Harvey received his commission
before Butler got his.
| Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland may be fond
of the New York press but-she refused to
| be interviewed. Some three months ago. in
answer to an editor proffering his columns
| for her use in any way, Miss Cleveland sadly
| and suggestively remarked, 81 assure you
| you are quite mistaken if you think that any
| thing | could write of myself would be of in
| terest to your readers"
| Miss Grace Howard, daughter of "Joe"
| Howard, is going to Dakota next month to
| spend two or three years in instructing the
| Indians. Miss Howard is an exceedingly tai
| ented woman, with a somewhat strong mind
She has spent some time on the frontier, and
| quite a strong friendship exists between her
and Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, because
of their sympathies in the same direction.
She is now in Montreal with her father.
The death of Mime. Needham and the sale
of her goods at the Hotel Drouet, Paris, make
it plain that the lady shopped industriousIy.
One hundred and fifty day and night chem
ises trimmed with Valenciennes and other
lace, seventy petticoats in silk muslin, etc,
forty pairs of garters twenty-four corsets.
200 lace handkerchiefs, forty pantalons de
sole peluche, and 165 pairs of silk stockings
are among the items on the bill of sale
A vivacious correspondent having described
Miss Matte Mitchell, the daughter of the
senator from Oregon, as she appeared in
gray plush cloak at the theatre one evening as
resembling ga maltese kitten by moonlight
an admirer of the young lady sent her. with
the printed paragraph, moonstone carved to
represent the head of kitten with small
emerald eyes, caught IN the arms of a crescent
moon made of diamonds. Miss Mitchell CON
stantly wears this pin now.
Miss Anna Dickinson is slowly recovering
her health, and friend, writing of her, saws:
Miss Dickinson has entreaties of plays from
two well known stars, for novel from New
York publisher, and for various magazine
articles. She is considering them, but will
decide nothing for few weeks yet, till she is
better. / shouldn't wonder if they were de-
clined ultimately, as she will want to carry
out her own chosen projects as soon as she is
we'll again.-Boston Traveller